introduction: mental health has an important role in preventing psychosomatic disease, aggression and chronic stress in adolescents, for this reason this study conducted to evaluate distress factors among 13 –year- old adolescents in the selected guidance schools in  kermanshah city. materials and methods : in this descriptive–analytic study, 664 students (13–year- old boys and girls)were selec...

Dentistry is considered a stressful profession, since dentists are exposed to potential stressors during their practice. Therefore, the objective of this study was to identify chronic stress levels and their association with different risk factors among dentists working at public health institutions in Guadalajara, Mexico. The study was observational, cross-sectional and one of association. The...

Heat stress in cattle results in millions of dollars in lost revenue each year due to production losses, and in extreme cases, death. Death losses are more likely to result from animals vulnerable to heat stress. A study was conducted to determine risk factors for heat stress in feedlot heifers. Over two consecutive summers, a total of 256 feedlot heifers (32/ breed/ year) of four breeds were o...

The Nur transcription factors Nur77 (NGFI-B, NR4A1), Nurr1 (NR4A2), and Nor-1 (NR4A3) are a sub-family of orphan members of the nuclear receptor superfamily. These transcription factors are products of immediate early genes, whose expression is rapidly and transiently induced in the central nervous system by several types of stimuli. Nur factors are present throughout the hypothalamus-pituitary...

OBJECTIVE To determine the probable factors responsible for stress among undergraduate medical students. METHODS The qualitative descriptive study was conducted at a public-sector medical college in Islamabad, Pakistan, from January to April 2014. Self-administered open-ended questionnaires were used to collect data from first year medical students in order to study the factors associated wit...

background: the aim of this study was to verify a path model of job stress using thai-jcq. methods: the population of this cross-sectional study was 800 immigrant employees in the central region of thailand in 2015 by stratified random sampling. instruments used both the applied and standard questionnaires. job stress was measured using thai-jcq dealt with psychosocial work factors. a path mode...

Background: Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the important vegetable oil supplies in the world and in Iran, as well. It is classified as a drought semi-tolerant crop; however, its yield is adversely affected by drought stress. Understanding the initial events in sensing stress and the related physiologic and biochemical events thereafter, is crucial in designing droug...